This authoritative state-of-the-art reference work builds on its first edition to provide a
cutting-edge systematic review of the relationship between race ethnicity and educational
inequality. Studying 25 different national contexts drawn from every inhabited continent on
earth and building upon material from the earlier edition the work analyses educational
policies practices and research on minority students immigrants and refugees. The editors and
contributors explore principal research traditions from countries as diverse as Argentina
China Norway and South Africa examining the factors promoting social cohesion as well as
considerations regarding the use of international test score data. Seamlessly integrating
findings of national reviews the editors and contributors analyse how national contexts of
race ethnic relations shape the character and content of educational inequalities and deftly
map out new directions for future research in the area. Global in its perspective and
definitive in content this one-stop volume will be an indispensable reference resource for a
wide range of academics students and researchers in the fields of education sociology race
and ethnicity studies and social policy. Chapter 20 of this book is available open access under
a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com
